Schaumburg, Illinois' Dagoth channels the speed metal and thrash overlap where tempos hit maximum velocity and the riffs carry a razor-sharp urgency. Since 2018, they've embraced the more amphetamine-fueled end of the thrash spectrum.

Hailing from Massapequa Park on Long Island, Damaged have been keeping the old-school thrash flame alive since 2014 with riff-driven, pit-ready material. Their approach is rooted in the classic East Coast thrash tradition, unpolished and uncompromising.

Dark Deception out of Hampstead deal in the velocity-heavy overlap of thrash, speed, and power metal — songs that push hard on the accelerator and rarely let up. Formed in 2018, they favor aggression calibrated with the precision of classic power metal.

Portland's DarkBlack combines power metal's epic ambitions with speed metal's raw drive, a project that has been pushing high-octane riff craft since 2009 with the kind of old-school conviction that never quite fell out of fashion.

Hailing from Roy, Utah, Davidian tear through the thrash and speed metal playbook with relentless aggression and tightly wound riffs. Formed in 2017, they keep the raw, unpolished energy of classic speed metal alive in an era that rarely demands it.

Grants Pass, Oregon's Dead Leslie tear through speed and thrash metal with the stripped-down urgency of a small-town act with something to prove, formed in 2020 in the Rogue Valley's fringes. Fast tempos and sharp riffs are their native language.

Syracuse's Deadrider smash heavy, speed, and thrash metal together with the reckless confidence of a band that grew up on Iron Maiden and Destruction in equal measure. Since 2014, they've been one of upstate New York's harder-hitting underground exports.

New York's Death Mask have been thrashing at speed metal's outer limits since 2011, trading in velocity and iron-fisted aggression drawn straight from the NWOBHM playbook. Fast, mean, and ruthlessly concise.

San Antonio's Death Tripper deal in pure high-octane speed and thrash metal — the kind that sounds like it was written on a stretch of empty Texas highway at 3 a.m. with no destination in mind. They've been burning rubber since 2011.

Ogden, Utah's Deathead have been running speed and thrash metal through the Mountain West's DIY circuit since 2004 — a two-decade-plus run that's given them a well-earned tightness and a genuinely menacing live reputation.

Tearing out of Inver Grove Heights since 2012, Minnesota's Deathrider runs on the twin engines of speed and thrash metal, with a sound that leans into the tightly wound riff attack of bands like early Exodus and Whiplash. Cold winters, hot tempos.

Baldwin Park speed metal act Decimation presses the accelerator and doesn't let up — tight, fast, and rooted in the classic LA-area metal tradition that made Southern California's suburbs a breeding ground for velocity. Formed in 2007 in the San Gabriel Valley.

Warren, Ohio speed/thrash act Decimator storms out of the Mahoning Valley with the stripped-down urgency of classic American speed metal — all burning solos, locked-in rhythm attack, and barely contained aggression. Formed in 2024, they arrive already knowing exactly what kind of band they want to be.

Los Angeles's Deliverance carry a storied legacy reactivated in 2020, blending speed metal and thrash with industrial elements in the tradition of the band's long history. Operating out of the LA metal scene, the band weaves mechanical menace through the kinetic force of high-octane thrash, a combination that has made them fixtures of the underground for decades across multiple incarnations.

Allentown, Pennsylvania's Dementia play thrash and speed metal with the blue-collar conviction of a region that never fully abandoned the genre's original intensity. Formed in 2013, they tap into a sound that owes as much to Overkill's East Coast crunch as it does to the classic speed metal template.